This is how British officials now describe Skripal, a Russian intelligence officer they recruited as a spy in the mid-1990s. In 2010, when Skripal and three other convicted spies were released to the West, Putin had been watching from the sidelines with mounting fury. Lyudmila ruminated bitterly about friends who had testified against her husband, said Viktoria Skripal, Skripal’s niece. Such assignments may be devised as a way to keep a former spy busy, said Nigel West, a British intelligence historian. A day earlier, according to British authorities, two Russian intelligence officers arrived in London aboard a different Aeroflot flight.

Source: bd News24 September 10, 2018 04:41 UTC